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Definition: milk
milk
n 1: a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as
food by human beings
2: produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding
their young
3: a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana
and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri
River [syn:
Milk River]
4: any of several nutritive milklike liquids
milk
v 1: take milk from female mammals;
“Cows need to be milked every
morning”
2: exploit as much as possible;
“I am milking this for all it's
worth”
3: add milk to;
“milk the tea”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Milk
Milk
\Milk\ (m[i^]lk), n. [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin
to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel.
mj[=o]lk, Sw. mj["o]lk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to
milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr.
'ame`lgein. [root]107. Cf.
Milch,
Emulsion,
Milt soft
roe of fishes.]
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1. (Physiol.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of
female mammals for the nourishment of their young,
consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a
solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic
salts.
“White as morne milk.” --Chaucer.
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2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color,
found in certain plants; latex. See
Latex.
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3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of
almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and
water.
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4. (Zo["o]l.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
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Condensed milk. See under
Condense, v. t.
Milk crust (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face
and scalp of nursing infants. See
Eczema.
Milk fever.
(a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first
lactation. It is usually transitory.
(b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle;
also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after
calving.
Milk glass, glass having a milky appearance.
Milk knot (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a
nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and
congestion of the mammary glands.
Milk leg (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in
puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and
characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an
accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular
tissue.
Milk meats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese.
[Obs.] --Bailey.
Milk mirror. Same as
Escutcheon, 2.
Milk molar (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which
are shed and replaced by the premolars.
Milk of lime (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate,
produced by macerating quicklime in water.
Milk parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (
Peucedanum palustre
) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice.
Milk pea (Bot.), a genus (
Galactia) of leguminous and,
usually, twining plants.
Milk sickness (Med.), See
milk sickness in the
vocabulary.
Milk snake (Zo["o]l.), a harmless American snake
(
Ophibolus triangulus, or
Ophibolus eximius). It is
variously marked with white, gray, and red. Called also
milk adder,
chicken snake,
house snake, etc.
Milk sugar. (Physiol. Chem.) See
Lactose, and
Sugar of milk
(below).
Milk thistle (Bot.), an esculent European thistle (
Silybum marianum
), having the veins of its leaves of a milky
whiteness.
Milk thrush. (Med.) See
Thrush.
Milk tooth (Anat.), one of the temporary first set of teeth
in young mammals; in man there are twenty.
Milk tree (Bot.), a tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow
tree of South America (
Brosimum Galactodendron), and the
Euphorbia balsamifera of the Canaries, the milk of both
of which is wholesome food.
Milk vessel (Bot.), a special cell in the inner bark of a
plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is
contained. See
Latex.
Rock milk. See
Agaric mineral, under
Agaric.
Sugar of milk. The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard
white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by
evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and
powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an
article of diet. See
Lactose.
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Milk
\Milk\ (m[i^]lk), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Milked (m[i^]lkt);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Milking.]
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1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the
hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
“Milking the
kine.” --Gay.
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I have given suck, and know
How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.
--Shak.
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2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk;
as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
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3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to
yield profit or advantage; to plunder. --Tyndale.
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They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as
regularly as a dairyman does his stock. --London
Spectator.
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To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in
stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately
raising and depressing prices within a short range; --
said of the large dealers. [Cant]
To milk a telegram, to use for one's own advantage the
contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]
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Milk
\Milk\, v. i.
1. To draw or to yield milk.
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2. (Elec.) To give off small gas bubbles during the final
part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage
battery.
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